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People are the Worst

Cloud10

True Crime, Comedy

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie.
0:04.0	And I'm Paige.
0:05.0	We're the hosts of the Murder Diaries.
0:07.3	We're a weekly victim-centered true crime podcast.
0:09.9	Our goal is to always keep the victims name and light alive in our coverage of missing, unsolved, and suspicious death cases.
0:16.4	New episodes are available every Thursday.
0:19.4	Listen to the Murder Diaries wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.1	She doesn't have her glasses on and it's dark, so she can't see if this is actually
0:31.4	police or a home invasion.
0:33.7	Right.
0:33.9	But her hands are in the air and she is staring down the barrel of a gun.
0:38.7	Holy shit.
0:42.9	Hello, everyone.
0:49.0	Welcome to people are the worst.
0:52.3	Welcome.
0:52.8	Glad to be here.
0:54.0	Glad to have you here. I rebecca blackstock i'll be
0:58.5	telling the story today oh we're formal i yeah okay i'm rachel cassinger thank you so much nice to
1:05.7	meet you it is a pleasure it's a pleasure to have you um well i know but people have been more so
1:12.9	again say we have new listeners each week so and they're like i can't tell you all's voices apart
1:17.6	and we used to identify ourselves more so we'll try to remember to do that oh yeah this episode was
1:24.2	recommended to us um this case sorry was recommended to us a couple of times.
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